Good to know, now I can get rid of those rats next door to my home world.

I noticed the AI taking two colonies from other AI's without wars.


That can also happen from rebellions when the colony is unhappy enough. Or when you change governments. They'll either become independent or join a ...

If you don't have a non-aggression treaty, your empires essentially exist in a state of Cold War by default. Whether you or the AI chooses to still attack in that stance is up to you/the AI and your relations. You can even do this while you have trade agreements, though they may not last very long ...

My exploration techs are at least level 2 or 3. As I continued the game in now seems to have picked up a luxury and explored the planet to its maximum.


Sure you may have the tech, but do you have the new/advanced survey module actually on your exploration ships? Has a ship design with the new ...

I found my Sol in my playthrough. It had Mars, a continental planet called Phyrro, Saturn, and Jupiter, in that orbital order.

My headcanon is that the entire system got all sorts of screwed up from the big bad millenia ago, being a major homeworld/hub of humanity.

The survey module on your exploration ship has a max level it can survey up to. At the beginning of the game, this is 25. You can't survey further without better survey tech and component on your ship.

When you colonize or place a mining station, exploration level slowly goes up at the location ...

The AI Ship designer needs to be a little smarter about resource sources. Or lack thereof. Especially as it pertains to the early game or an isolationist empire where traders from other empires are lacking.

The ship designer puts on the best component it can with no regards of resources. Leading to ...

This is really a problem with the AI Ship designer. It does not consider lack of resource sources when designing ships. It just shoves on the best components. Which is funny because the game warns humans players with a "defect" when you lack the resource to construct the ship.

Ran into this when I ...